BROCKTON, Mass. —A chase that started in Holbrook ended, police said, when a man crashed his car into a utility pole with his 3-year-old daughter in the back seat Wednesday night.

The Brockton Enterprise reported Thursday that Kenton Wright Jr., 30, of Brockton, was charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle, attaching plates to a motor vehicle, reckless endangerment to a child under 18 and having a child under 5 in a car without a car seat.